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ved bhrdwaj
ved bhrdwaj

Reputation: 25

SAS unable to interpret symbol "≤" in macro execution?

Can you please explain why SAS interprets "≤" as "=" after execution in a macro or in proc report?

For example

%let a= ≤ ;

%put a is equal to &a;

The SAS log shows the following message: 

SYMBOLGEN:  Macro variable A resolves to =
a is equal to =

I also used quoting/masking functions, but it didn't help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 587

Answers (1)

Chris J
Chris J

Reputation: 7769

≤ is not part of the standard ASCII character set.

It may be the case that the SAS Editor doesn't support extended character sets, e.g. UTF-8 or Unicode.

When I copy/paste the ≤ symbol from my browser into SAS Editor, it becomes the = character.

If you wish to do a less-than-or-equals logical comparision in datastep or macro, simply use <=.

Upvotes: 4

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